“Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.”
“GOd let women bear children so women would never give up hope. Even if here on earth women were denied everything else, God would always let them bear children. Children were a promise brighter than the rainbow.”
“Best of children, sisters arm-in-arm, we must bear what the gods give us to bear-- don't fire up your hearts with so much grief. No reason to blame the pass you've come to now.”
“Waiting and hoping is a hard thing to do when you've already been waiting and hoping for almost as long as you can bear it.”
“We are born believing. A man bears belief, as a tree bears apples.”
“This would be my torture: all that didn't bear thinking about would devote itself to forcing me to bear thinking about it.”